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During this time Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers and, strewing incense on the fire they had put in them, they offered up before the LORD profane fire, such as he had not authorized. Fire therefore came forth from the LORD'S presence and consumed them, so that they died in his presence. [LEV
10:1-2]
The LORD said to Aaron, "When you are to go
to the meeting tent, you and your sons are forbidden under pain of
death, by a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations, to
drink any wine or strong drink. You must be able to distinguish
between what is sacred and what is profane, between what is clean
and what is unclean; you must teach the Israelites all the laws
that the LORD has given them through Moses." [LEV 10:8-11]
Whoever eats of it then shall pay the penalty
for having profaned what is sacred to the LORD. Such a one shall
be cut off from his people. [Taken from LEV 19:8]
You shall not swear falsely by my name, thus
profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD. [LEV 19:12]
I myself will turn against such a man and cut
him off from the body of his people; for in giving his offspring
to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
[LEV 20:3]
The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to Aaron's
sons, the priests, and tell them: None of you shall make himself
unclean for any dead person among his people, except for his
nearest relatives, his mother or father, his son or daughter, his
brother or his maiden sister, who is of his own family while she
remains unmarried; for these he may make himself unclean. But for
a sister who has married out of his family he shall not make
himself unclean; this would be a profanation." [LEV 21:1-4]
"The priests shall not make bare the crown of the head, nor shave the edges of the beard, nor lacerate the body. To their God they shall be sacred, and not profane his name; since they offer up the oblations of the LORD, the food of their God, they must be holy."
[LEV 21:5-6]
"The most exalted of the priests, upon
whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been
ordained to wear the special vestments, shall not bare his head or
rend his garments, nor shall he go near any dead person. Not even
for his father or mother may he thus become unclean or leave the
sanctuary; otherwise he will profane the sanctuary of his God, for
with the anointing oil upon him, he is dedicated to his God, to
me, the LORD." [LEV 21:10-12]
"No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any such defect may draw near to offer up the oblations of the LORD; on account of his defect he may not draw near to offer up the food of his God... Only, he may not approach the veil nor go up to the altar on account of his defect; he shall not profane these things that are sacred to me, for it is I, the LORD, who make them sacred."
Moses, therefore, told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
[Taken from LEV 21:21,.23-24]
"Tell Aaron and his sons to respect the
sacred offerings which the Israelites consecrate to me; else they
will profane my holy name. I am the LORD." [LEV 22:2]
"They shall keep my charge and not do wrong
in this matter; else they will die for their profanation. I am the
LORD who have consecrated them." [LEV 22:9]
The sacred offerings which the Israelites
contribute to the LORD the priests shall not allow to be profaned
[Taken from LEV 22:15]
"Be careful to observe the commandments which I, the LORD, give you, and do not profane my holy name; in the midst of the Israelites I, the LORD, must be held as sacred. It is I who made you sacred and led you out of the land of Egypt, that I, the LORD, might be your God." [LEV 22:31-33]
But when Nadab and Abihu offered profane fire
before the LORD in the desert of Sinai, they met death in the
presence of the LORD, and left no sons. Thereafter only Eleazar
and Ithamar performed the priestly functions under the direction
of their father Aaron. [NUM 3:4]
"Do not profane the sacred gifts of
the Israelites and so bring death on yourselves." [Taken from
NUM 18:32]
But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered
profane fire before the LORD. [NUM 26:61]
I took the nobles of Judah to task, demanding of
them: "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning
the sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this same way, with
the result that our God has brought all this evil upon us and upon
this city? Would you add to the wrath against Israel by once more
profaning the sabbath?" When the shadows were falling on the
gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I ordered the doors to be
closed and forbade them to be reopened till after the sabbath. I
posted some of my own men at the gates so that no burden might
enter on the sabbath day. The merchants and sellers of various
kinds of merchandise spent the night once or twice outside
Jerusalem, but then I warned them, saying to them: "Why do
you spend the night alongside the wall? If you keep this up, I
will lay hands on you!" From that time on, they did not
return on the sabbath. [NEH 13:17-21]
When the Israelites who dwelt in Judea heard of
all that Holofernes, commander-in-chief of Nebuchadnezzar, king of
the Assyrians, had done to the nations, and how he had despoiled
all their temples and destroyed them, they were in extreme dread
of him, and greatly alarmed for Jerusalem and the temple of the
Lord, their God. Now, they had lately returned from exile, and
only recently had all the people of Judea been gathered together,
and the vessels, the altar, and the temple been purified from
profanation. So they sent word to the whole region of Samaria, to
Kona, Beth-horon, Belmain, and Jericho, to Choba and Aesora, and
to the valley of Salem. The people there posted guards on all the
summits of the high mountains, fortified their villages, and since
their fields had recently been harvested, stored up provisions in
preparation for war. [JDTH 4:1-5]
All the men of Israel cried to God with great
fervor and did penance - they, along with their wives, and
children, and domestic animals. All their resident aliens, hired
laborers, and slaves also girded themselves with sackcloth. And
all the Israelite men, women and children who lived in Jerusalem
prostrated themselves in front of the temple building, with ashes
strewn on their heads, displaying their sackcloth covering before
the Lord. The altar, too, they draped in sackcloth; and with one
accord they cried out fervently to the God of Israel not to allow
their children to be seized, their wives to be taken captive, the
cities of their inheritance to be ruined, or the sanctuary to be
profaned and mocked for the nations to gloat over. The Lord heard
their cry and had regard for their distress. For the people
observed a fast of many days' duration throughout Judea, and
before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem. [JDTH 4:9-13]
But since we acknowledge no other god but the Lord, we hope that he will not disdain us or any of our people. If we are taken, all Judea will fall, our sanctuary will be plundered, and God will make us pay for its profanation with our life's blood.
[JDTH 8:20-21]
"You, the Lord, crush warfare; Lord is
your name. Shatter their strength in your might, and crush their
force in your wrath; for they have resolved to profane your
sanctuary, to defile the tent where your glorious name resides,
and to overthrow with iron the horns of your altar." [Taken
from JDTH 9:8]
"Enough of this!" the pursuers said to
them. "Come out and obey the king's command, and your lives
will be spared." But they replied, "We will not come
out, nor will we obey the king's command to profane the
sabbath." Then the enemy attacked them at once; but they did
not retaliate; they neither threw stones, nor blocked up their own
hiding places. They said, "Let us all die without reproach;
heaven and earth are our witnesses that you destroy us
unjustly." [1MACC 2:33-37]
They brought with them the priestly vestments,
the first fruits, and the tithes; and they brought forward the
nazirites who had completed the time of their vows. And they cried
aloud to Heaven: "What shall we do with these men, and where
shall we take them? For your sanctuary has been trampled on and
profaned, and your priests are in mourning and humiliation." [1MACC
3:49-51]
People rushed out of their houses in crowds to
make public supplication, because the Place was in danger of being
profaned. [2MACC 3:18]
Not satisfied with this, the king dared to enter the holiest temple in the world; Menelaus, that traitor both to the laws and to his country, served as guide.
He laid his impure hands on the sacred vessels and gathered up with profane hands the votive offerings made by other kings for the advancement, the glory, and the honor of the Place. [2MACC 5:15-16]
Not long after this the king sent an Athenian
senator to force the Jews to abandon the customs of their
ancestors and live no longer by the laws of God; also to profane
the temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus, and that
on Mount Gerizim to Zeus the Hospitable, as the inhabitants of the
place requested. This intensified the evil in an intolerable and
utterly disgusting way. [2MACC 6:1-3]
Judas Maccabeus and his companions entered the
villages, secretly, summoned their kinsmen, and by also enlisting
others who remained faithful to Judaism, assembled about six
thousand men. They implored the Lord to look kindly upon his
people, who were being oppressed on all sides; to have pity on the
temple, which was profaned by godless men; to have mercy on the
city, which was being destroyed and about to be leveled to the
ground; to hearken to the blood that cried out to him; to remember
the criminal slaughter of innocent children and the blasphemies
uttered against his name; and to manifest his hatred of evil. Once
Maccabeus got his men organized, the Gentiles could not withstand
him, for the Lord's wrath had now changed to mercy. [2MACC 8:1-5]
On the anniversary of the day on which the
temple had been profaned by the Gentiles, that is, the
twenty-fifth of the same month Chislev, the purification of the
temple took place. [2MACC 10:5]
Relying on the strength of their walls and their supply of provisions, the besieged treated Judas and his men with contempt, insulting them and even uttering blasphemies and profanity. But Judas and his men invoked the aid of the great Sovereign of the world, who, in the day of Joshua, overthrew Jericho without battering-ram or siege machine; then they furiously stormed the ramparts.
[2MACC 12:14-15]
Turn your steps toward the utter ruins, toward
the sanctuary devastated by the enemy. Your foes roared
triumphantly in your shrine; they set up their own tokens of
victory. They hacked away like foresters gathering boughs,
swinging their axes in a thicket of trees. They smashed all your
engraved work, pounded it with hammer and pick. They set your
sanctuary on fire; the abode of your name they razed and profaned.
[PS 74:3-7]
Two things I ask of you, deny them not to me
before I die: Put falsehood and lying far from me, give me neither
poverty nor riches; (provide me only with the food I need;) Lest,
being full, I deny you, saying, "Who is the LORD?" Or,
being in want, I steal, and profane the name of my God. [PROV 30:7-9]
The leaders of this people mislead them and
those to be led are engulfed. For this reason, the Lord does not
spare their young men, and their orphans and widows he does not
pity; They are wholly profaned and sinful, and every mouth gives
vent to folly. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his
hand is still outstretched! For wickedness burns like fire,
devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which
go up in columns of smoke. [ISA 9:15-17]
Angry at my people, I profaned my inheritance,
And I gave them into your hand; but you showed them no mercy, And
upon old men you laid a very heavy yoke. [ISA 47:6]
For the sake of my name I restrain my anger, for
the sake of my renown I hold it back from you, lest I should
destroy you. See, I have refined you like silver, tested you in
the furnace of affliction. For my sake, for my own sake, I do
this; why should I suffer profanation? My glory I will not give to
another. [ISA 48:9-11]
Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do
what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about
to be revealed. Happy is the man who does this, the son of man who
holds to it; Who keeps the sabbath free from profanation, and his
hand from any evildoing. [ISA 56:1-2]
For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor does their guilt escape my view.
I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin of profaning my land with their
detestable corpses of idols, and filling my heritage with their abominations.
[JER 16:17-18]
I will turn away my face from them, and my
treasure shall be profaned: robbers shall enter and profane it.
[EZEK 7:22]
I will bring in the worst of the nations, who
shall take possession of their houses. I will put an end to their
proud strength, and their sanctuaries shall be profaned. [EZEK
7:24]
Then I said to them: Throw away, each of you,
the detestable things that have held your eyes; do not defile
yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD, your God. But
they rebelled against me and refused to listen to me; none of them
threw away the detestable things that had held their eyes, they
did not abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I thought of pouring out
my fury on them and spending my anger on them there in the land of
Egypt; but I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, in
whose presence I had made myself known to them, revealing that I
would bring them out of the land of Egypt. Therefore I led them
out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the desert. Then I
gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, which
everyone must keep, to have life through them. I also gave them my
sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, to show that it was I,
the LORD, who made them holy. But the house of Israel rebelled
against me in the desert. They did not observe my statutes, and
they despised my ordinances that bring life to those who keep
them. My sabbaths, too, they desecrated grievously. Then I thought
of pouring out my fury on them in the desert to put an end to
them, but I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be
profaned in the sight of the nations in whose presence I had
brought them out. Nevertheless I swore to them in the desert not
to bring them to the land I had given them, a land flowing with
milk and honey, a jewel among all lands. [EZEK 20:7-15]
As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord
GOD: Come, each one of you, destroy your idols! Then listen to me,
and never again profane my holy name with your gifts and your
idols. [EZEK 20:39]
Can your heart remain firm, will your hands be
strong, in the days when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have
spoken, and I will act. I will disperse you among the nations and
scatter you over foreign lands, so that I may purge your
uncleanness. In you I will allow myself to be profaned in the eyes
of the nations; thus you shall know that I am the LORD. [EZEK 22:14-16]
You became haughty of heart because of your
beauty; for the sake of splendor you debased your wisdom. I cast
you to the earth, so great was your guilt; I made you a spectacle
in the sight of kings. Because of your guilt, your sinful trade, I
have profaned your sanctuaries, And I have brought out fire from
your midst which will devour you. I have reduced you to dust on
the earth in the sight of all who should see you. Among the
peoples, all who knew you stand aghast at you; You have become a
horror, you shall be no more. [EZEK 28:17-19]
I scattered them among the nations, dispersing
them over foreign lands; according to their conduct and deeds I
judged them. But when they came among the nations (wherever they
came), they served to profane my holy name, because it was said of
them: "These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to
leave their land." So I have relented because of my holy name
which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they
came. Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord
GOD: Not for your sakes do I act, house of Israel, but for the
sake of my holy name, which you profaned among the nations to
which you came. I will prove the holiness of my great name,
profaned among the nations, in whose midst you have profaned it.
Thus the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD,
when in their sight I prove my holiness through you. [EZEK 36:16-23]
I will make my holy name known among my people
Israel; I will no longer allow my holy name to be profaned. Thus
the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
[EZEK 39:7]
When he had finished measuring the inner temple
area, he brought me out by way of the gate which faces east and
measured all the limits of the court... Thus he measured it in the
four directions, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits
wide. It was surrounded by a wall, to separate the sacred from the
profane. [EZEK 42:15,20]
Then I heard someone speaking to me from the
temple, while the man stood beside me. The voice said to me: Son
of man, this is where my throne shall be, this is where I will set
the soles of my feet; here I will dwell among the Israelites
forever. Never again shall they and their kings profane my holy
name with their harlotries and with the corpses of their kings
(their high places). When they placed their threshold against my
threshold and their doorpost next to mine, so that only a wall was
between us, they profaned my holy name by their abominable deeds;
therefore I consumed them in my wrath. From now on they shall put
far from me their harlotry and the corpses of their kings, and I
will dwell in their midst forever. [EZEK 43:6-9]
They shall teach my people to distinguish
between the sacred and the profane, and make known to them the
difference between the clean and the unclean. [EZEK 44:23]
The Levites shall have a territory corresponding
to that of the priests, twenty-five thousand cubits by ten
thousand. The whole tract shall be twenty-five thousand cubits
across and twenty thousand north and south. They may not sell or
exchange or alienate this, the best part of the land, for it is
sacred to the LORD. The remaining five thousand cubits along the
twenty-five-thousand- cubit line are profane land, assigned to the
City for dwellings and pasture; the City shall be at their center.
[EZEK 48:13-15]
Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they sell the
just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals. They
trample the heads of the weak into the dust of the earth, and
force the lowly out of the way. Son and father go to the same
prostitute, profaning my holy name. [AMOS 2:6-7]
How many nations are gathered against you! They
say, "Let her be profaned, let our eyes see Zion's
downfall!" But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, nor
understand his counsel, When he has gathered them like sheaves on
the threshing floor. [MICAH 4:11-12]
Judah has broken faith; an abominable thing has
been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the
temple which the LORD loves, and has married an idolatrous woman.
[MAL 2:11]
The voice spoke to him again, a second time,
"What God has made clean, you are not to call profane."
[ACTS 10:15]
When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and,
falling at his feet, paid him homage. Peter, however, raised him
up, saying, "Get up. I myself am also a human being."
While he conversed with him, he went in and found many people
gathered together and said to them, "You know that it is
unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with, or visit, a Gentile,
but God has shown me that I should not call any person profane or
unclean." [ACTS 10:25-28]
We know that the law is good, provided that one
uses it as law, with the understanding that law is meant not for a
righteous person but for the lawless and unruly, the godless and
sinful, the unholy and profane, those who kill their fathers or
mothers, murderers, the unchaste, practicing homosexuals,
kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound
teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God,
with which I have been entrusted. [1TM 1:8-11]
Avoid profane and silly myths. Train yourself for devotion, for,
while physical training is of limited value, devotion is valuable in every respect, since it holds a promise of life both for the present and for the future.
[1TM 4:7-8]
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid profane babbling and the absurdities of so-called knowledge. By professing it, some people have deviated from the faith. Grace be with all of you.
[1TM 6:20-21]
Be eager to present yourself as acceptable to God, a workman who causes no disgrace, imparting the word of truth without deviation.
Avoid profane, idle talk, for such people will become more and more godless,
and their teaching will spread like gangrene. [Taken
from 2TM 2:15-17]
Strive for peace with everyone, and for that
holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no
one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up
and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled, that no
one be an immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his
birthright for a single meal. For you know that later, when he
wanted to inherit his father's blessing, he was rejected because
he found no opportunity to change his mind, even though he sought
the blessing with tears. [HEB 12:14-17]
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